Having no cable TV not so bad actually
The third evening without cable TV went just fine. We watched some over-the-air and internet TV (Polish and German). It was just enough.
I went on hulu.com on Monday evening to check for the new House episode just to find out that they are two weeks behind. There is no such problem with abc.com where shows can be watched a day after. Can’t wait for ABC to put their programming on Hulu. It may prompt CBS to change their online show placement.
I’m also busy writing a script to download shows from TV Polonia. They are using Windows Media Player plugin which does not work on Mac that well. I can open a stream in either VLC or QuickTime Player but there is a substantial delay for buffering. I already scripted SaveTV (German online DVR) and it simplifies watching a lot. The shows simply show up in XBMC.
At the moment, having no cable TV is not so bad but it will take more time to find out if internet TV can replace it.
Radek,
Did you ever get the tv polonia script to work. I would like to setup a tv for my grandmother and she only watches tv polonia so I was hoping to get XMBC or Boxee working with TV polonia.
Thanks
Jacob
I did. It’s not an elegant solution, but works just fine. Requires some initial setup using Firebug and internal info from the website (show numbers). It’s in my github repo: https://github.com/radekw/media_scripts/tree/master/src